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Web Design / Essex

Web design for Essex businesses, from one person who answers the phone

Essex is a big, varied county, with firms near Stansted, along the Thames and across its market towns and cities. I am based in Hertfordshire and work with Essex businesses by call and video, and in person where it helps.

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10+ years designing and building websites for local firms Custom WordPress, not a theme with your logo swapped in Serving Essex businesses by call and video, and in person where it helps
Why Essex firms call me

Web design for a county too big for one answer

A firm near Stansted, a trade in Chelmsford and a shop in Colchester do not share a customer. The website has to start from who your customers are, not which county you sit in.

Start from your customers

I ask who you sell to and how they find you. The answers set the structure of the site, not a county-wide template.

Remote working that works

Reviews, feedback and sign-off over calls and shared screens, so the project moves quickly without anyone travelling.

Honest about competition

Search results across Essex are crowded. I will tell you which phrases are realistic for your firm and which are not.

One person accountable, start to finish

The person you brief is the person who builds it and who supports it afterwards.

Essex is not one market. Yours is a few hundred people, and the site should be built for them.
Across the county

Work and web design across Essex

Colchester and Bishop's Stortford have pages of their own. Several of my clients are also in the east London boroughs that border Essex, and each has a case study you can read.

Web design in Bishop's Stortford

Close to Stansted and the Essex border, where the customer base is rarely only local.

Vijay's Virasat, Ilford

Full brand identity and photography for a restaurant, from logo to menu design.

Pedagogy Club, Barkingside

A custom WordPress theme and a purpose-built enrolments plugin, so bookings run on logic made for the business.

Protech Autocentres, South Woodford

Logo and brand identity for a vehicle service centre.

Web design in Colchester

A Roman town with a castle, a university and a high street of independent businesses, where reputation does most of the selling.

What changes

The Essex website most firms get vs. the one built around your customers

The common approach

  • A county-wide template with the town name swapped in
  • Promises of page one with nothing to back them up
  • A fee that grows as the project goes on
  • No one to call once it is live

How I do it

  • A structure built around who you sell to
  • Honest advice on which searches are worth competing for
  • A clear scope and price agreed before work starts
  • Support from the person who built it
Questions people actually ask

FAQ

Do you work with Essex businesses even though you are based in Hertfordshire?

Yes. Most of the process is calls and shared screens, which works the same from Hertfordshire as from anywhere else. I can meet in person where it helps.

Which parts of Essex do you cover?

Anywhere your customers are, in practice. Firms near the Hertfordshire border are easiest to meet, but distance has rarely mattered to the work.

Can you help us rank for web-based searches in Essex?

I build the site so search engines can understand it, and I give honest advice on what is realistic. Essex is competitive, so I would rather aim at searches you can win.

What does a typical project look like?

A conversation first, then a written plan with scope and dates. I design, build and launch the site, and stay on afterwards for changes and support.

Proof

Sites I built that are running right now

Open any of them. These are live businesses trading on the site, not mockups, and each one has a write-up of what was built and why.

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Also serving
Hertfordshire Watford St Albans Welwyn Hemel Hempstead Stevenage Hatfield Hitchin Harpenden Bishop's Stortford Letchworth Barnet Finchley Harrow Wembley North London London Hertford Luton Dunstable Berkhamsted Potters Bar Royston Baldock Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes Colchester Cambridge Oxford Northampton Peterborough Birmingham Bristol Manchester Southampton Norwich Brighton Reading Bedford Leicester Nottingham Leeds Coventry Sheffield Cardiff Liverpool Newcastle Exeter Portsmouth Plymouth Swansea Bournemouth Derby Hull
What clients say
Was looking to have a website built from scratch and had over 30 companies reach out to take on the project, but Terence stood out from the crowd. Response times are speedy and the way he speaks about his work is so passionate I couldn't not work with him on this project.
Onward Shift
Terry has been working with us for nearly 10 years now. We asked Terry to help us with our website...turned out so amazing.
Swagat Catering
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Tell me what's broken, or what you're starting.

One email or a fifteen-minute call. I read and reply to every one myself.

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